Terrorism and child pornography used to justify surveillance society, says academic

“My concern is that its easy policy-making… if you say it’s against terrorism and it’s against child pornography then nobody is going to say no."

His comments echo those made by Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, who last year accused ministers of interfering with people's privacy and playing straight into the hands of terrorists, by creating a “police state”

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